Thesaurus: billow
A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
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Definitions
- n. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
- n. A great wave or flood of anything.
- v. i. To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
- n. a large sea wave
- v. rise up as if in waves
- v. move with great difficulty
- v. rise and move, as in waves or billows
- v. become inflated
- 1. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. Cowper. 2. A great wave or flood of anything. Milton. To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." Prior.
- To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate."The billowing snow." Prior.
- n:7/v:93 n. a large sea wave v. rise up as if in waves v. move with great difficulty v. rise and move, as in waves or billows